It is the center of Malynivka rural hromada (community), in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Due to the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine between 1932 and 1933, 160 residents of the village died.

On 22 March the same year, the village was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[4] On 20 February 2023, the regional Ukrainian military administration reported that Russian forces shelled civilian infrastructure in the village.

[6] In the 1989 USSR census, it was reported that the village had a population of 863, of whom 366 were men and 497 were women.